While I would much rather you spent all of your free time reading what I have to offer here at formerfatdudes.com, I can’t keep up with writing enough stuff to keep you properly entertained and informed. Especially when I spend a good chunk of my time reading other sites myself.
Sites like Small Bites.
Small Bites is kept up by Andy Bellatti who working on becoming a Registered Dietitian and also has a degree in journalism. His mission for the site is summed up as follows…
Andy Bellatti’s Small Bites blog aims to deliver information on a variety of nutrition topics in a straightforward fashion free of hype, magic bullets, and quackery.
In these times of information overload and self-appointed gurus who lack basic nutrition science concepts, Small Bites delivers precise and scientifically sound advice to help you achieve your health goals.
A couple of articles he put up recently really caught my eye and I thought I’d share them…
A lot of post-ops use flax seed for things like the infamous “Muffing in a Minute” and other cooking as a way to get some baked goods while minimizing their flour intake. I also use flax seed meal as an egg substitute in some of the baking I’ve done. One of the big deals people make about flax seed is the whole omega-3 fatty acids thing… which I know nothing about, but which Andy actually explains pretty well.
Bottom line is that there are three types of these omega-3 things, and we need them all. Flax seed is great for one of them, not the best source of the other two, so you either need to keep some fish in your diet or use supplements to round things out.
And in case you needed yet another reason to look in to WLS, or incentive to keep the weight off that you’ve lost, here he talks a bit about about the Numbers Game and how excess weight has been shown to be the MAIN factor in over 70% of all cases of heart disease and over 50% of strokes.
Both of these posts are good examples of the straight forward, no-nonsense style in which Andy presents some great information on a wide range of nutrition and health related topics.
Hello FormerlyFatDudes,
I have recently started a Duodenal Surgery blog of my experiences from Lap Band to DS and was wondering if you wouldn’t mind if I linked in my blogroll to your site? Also, would you be willing to link back to mine as well? Please let me know. Here is my blog link if you’d like to check me out 1st. :) Take care.
http://awlschronicle.com/blog/
P.S. I apologize for the comment method of contact however I couldn’t find a “contact us”. :)
Mandy
yer all linked up! I probably should do a contact page one of these days too…